Abstract
The obtaining, during the last few years, of poor performances at the baccalaureate in a large number of schools in Romania has been largely the result of an inefficient management, and of the lack of leaders able to efficiently influence the behavior of their subordinates. The improvement of the performance of the Romanian pre-university education system depends on the change of the mentality of the teaching staff and the promotion of transformational school leaders able to assume change and inspire and transform the mentality of the personnel in order to realize the goals of education. In this context, the present work approaches in an interdisciplinary manner the relation between leadership and the benefits of the knowledge society and has the purpose of identifying the factors specific of the knowledge society that can contribute to the creation of a transformational leadership in the Romanian pre-university education system.